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Gimme Fiction

Spoon make some of the catchiest, most confident rock 'n' roll of any group around. Their fifth full-length is nothing short of a dizzying, soulful masterpiece, easily the most expansive work in their career. Gimme Fiction is a sprawling, exhilarating, filler-free album of keenly focused artistic vision and ambition.

Kill The Moonlight

Building on the momentum of 2001's critically acclaimed GIRLS CAN TELL, Spoon unveiled KILL THE MOONLIGHT the following year. Keeping things spare, yet surprisingly eclectic, is what elevates KILL THE MOONLIGHT above similarly conceived underground albums; this quality helped to make it one of 2002's most lauded indie-rock releases. This 180 gm vinyl re-issue includes a coupon for mp3 download!

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (10th Anniversary)

The 10th Anniversary 2xLP Edition Of Spoon's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Features The Studio Album On One LP And The 12-Track Get Nice! EP On The Other

Pressed On 180-Gram Vinyl

Remastered By Howie Weinberg

Housed In A Gatefold Jacket With Updated Artwork

Remastered by Howie Weinberg, the 10th anniversary 2-LP edition of Spoon's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga features the studio album on one LP and the 12-track Get Nice! EP-previously available only as a bonus CD-on the other. Both are pressed on 180-gram vinyl packaged in a gatefold jacket with updated art. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga was recorded throughout 2006 in Austin, TX, by the band and Mike McCarthy (except "The Underdog" which was recorded in Los Angeles with Jon Brion). Upon release, critics and listeners alike praised the record, which subsequently received Best New Music status from Pitchfork and cracked the top 10 of Rolling Stone's Best Albums of 2007.

A Series of Sneaks

Reissue of Spoon's acclaimed 1998 sophomore full length, A Series Of Sneaks. Out of print for many years on LP, this version is remastered and presented on High Quality Heavy 180g Vinyl. Includes coupon for MP3 download of entire record and the two bonus tracks: ôThe Agony of Lafitteö and ôLafitte Don't Fail Me Now.ö

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

This record starts with Don't Make Me A Target, a song that builds on Spoon's familiar minimal rhythmic piano/guitar vamp popularized on earlier hits like Small Stakes or The Way We Get By. The album quickly moves into uncharted territory with the atmospheric The Ghost Of You Lingers and moves through several different stylistic changes from the explosive You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb to the wall-of-sound horns of radio single The Underdog. Their most heartfelt batch of songs since 2001's Girls Can Tell.

The Best Of The Lovin' Spoonful

Import

As the title suggests this is a real Best Of and not a Greatest Hits album. Although there are five successful singles on the album (Do You Believe in Magic, You Didn't Have To Be So Nice, Daydream, Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind? and Summer In The City), the seven other tracks emphasize the band's assets as a whole and not only John Sebastian's song writing and singing abilities. These seven tracks might not have been big hits, but they are surely the group's strongest material, picked from the first three albums Do You Believe In Magic, Daydream, and Hums Of The Lovin' Spoonful. This 180-gram LP comes in a gatefold sleeve with four postcards of the members.

1. Do You Believe In Magic2. Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind3. Butchie's Tune4. Jug Band Music5. Night Owl Blues6. You Didn't Have To Be So Nice7. Daydream8. Blues In The Bottle9. Didn't Want To Have To Do It10. Wild About My Lovin'11. Younger Girl12. Summer In The City

Hot Thoughts

'Hot Thoughts', Spoon's 9th album, is the bravest, most sonically inventive work of their career, though keep in mind, Britt Daniel's already overseen a number of other reincarnations. With all due respect to earlier efforts that have made the quintet both critically acclaimed and a commercial contender, preconceptions about this band are about to be obliterated. That's not to say 'Hot Thoughts' doesn't have a requisite supply of infectious earworms but there's a lyrical bent that's as carnal as it's crafty, and a newfound sense of sonic exploration that results in the genre-smasher Spoon have flirted with in the past but not fully consummated.

Produced by Dave Fridmann (Tame Impala, The Flaming Lips, Weezer, MGMT) and back with Matador (third time's the charm) helps position Spoon to mount the highest highs of their already spectacular career.

We are overjoyed to be back in the Spoon business and in time for Daniel's spot in the pantheon of rock's genius songwriters was well established a ways back - with the crackling, incandescent, multi-dimensional backdrop conjured on 'Hot Thoughts', the lines between accessible and experimental become non-factors for once and all. It's pop as high art, delivered with total confidence and focus.

1. Hot Thoughts2. Whisperilllistentohearit3. Do I Have To Talk You Into It4. First Caress5. Pink Up6. Can I Sit Next To You7. I Ain't The One8. Tear It Down9. Shotgun10. Us

Gimme Fiction (Deluxe Edition)

Remastered By Howie Weinberg from the Original Tapes, includes a Second Disc with 12 Previously Unreleased Demos, a Full-color Book Containing Photos and an Extensive Oral History of the making of the album. The Deluxe LP Package Will Also Include A 24" X 36" Poster.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Spoon classic, Merge will release a deluxe limited-edition version of Gimme Fiction on double-LP (180g). The reissue contains the album remastered by Howie Weinberg from the original tapes, a second disc with 12 previously unreleased demos from the era, nine additional bonus tracks via digital download, and a full-color book containing photos and an extensive oral history of the making of the album. The deluxe LP package will also include a 24" x 36" poster.

Gimme Fiction dragged the sonic pointillism of Kill the Moonlight further into dub-influenced weirdness as the increasingly confident Spoon went crazy in the studio, experimenting with everything from warped hip-hop samples to horse whinnies. How all this directionless Dylan worship and psychedelic goofing resulted in an album as sharply realized as Gimme Fiction is a testament solely to Spoon's self-assurance and tastefulness (and some hard work, and a bit of luck, etc.). Whatever digging or strange alchemy had to go into it, they only produced more gold. Gimme Fiction deserves special recognition because it's the album where Spoon-backed into a corner-took some crazy leaps, all of them forward. It's a "departure point" for a band that, lucky for us, has never made a real departure. And when it came time for a reissue, we knew it deserved a lasting place on vinyl, right alongside every other indispensable record in Spoon's discography.

LP1 - Original Album Remastered1. The Beast and Dragon, Adored2. The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine3. I Turn My Camera On4. My Mathematical Mind5. The Delicate Place6. Sister Jack7. I Summon You8. The Infinite Pet9. Was It You?10. They Never Got You11. Merchants of Soul

LP2 - Home Demos1. I Summon You (First Demo)2. Was It You?3. I've Been Good Too Long4. Sister Jack (Piano Demo)5. The Beast and Dragon, Adored6. My Mathematical Mind7. They Never Got You8. The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine9. The Delicate Place10. The Infinite Pet11. Merchants of Soul12. Dear Mr. Landlord

They Want My Soul

The music:

Spoon's most straight-up, direct and concise rock album ever;A certain "return to form" as a straight up American rock band, a restoration of Spoon's trademark authority, confidence and swagger;Music runs a gamut from AC/DC-esque guitar-driven songs like the opener "Rent I Pay" to stunning cosmic space disco tracks like "Outlier" to delicately pensive album standout "Inside Out".

The story:

After 6 years of incessant recording and touring, band took a 4.5 year break between albums. Spoon returns more invigorated and energized than at any point in their career;Core audience will love the return to Spoon-y form via future greatest hits like Do You, Let Me Be Mine and They Want My Soul;The addition of new people around the band and recording process, namely multi-instrumentalist Alex Fischel and legendary producer Dave Fridmann (MGMT, Tame Impala, Flaming Lips), has expanded the band's oeuvre into new and exciting sonic terrain, most notable heard in Inside Out, Knock Knock Knock and Outlier.

Girls Can Tell

Girls Can Tell served as Spoon's stunning follow-up to 1998Æs A Series of Sneaks as well as their triumphant full-length debut for Merge in 2001. Girls Can Tell finds the extremely talented Britt Daniel developing into one of the most unique voices in rock n' roll with a stunning maturity and economy to his songwriting. This High Quality Heavy 180g Vinyl Reissue also includes an MP3 download coupon of the entire record.

1. Everything Hits at Once 2. Believing Is Art 3. Me And The Bean 4. Lines In The Suit 5. The Fitted Shirt 6. Anything you Want 7. Take A Walk 8. 10:20 AM 9. Take The Fifth 10. This Book Is A Movie 11. Chicago At Night

Transference

Produced by the band, Transference is made up of 11 new gems that honor the Spoon tradition while pushing the envelope of the band's sound ever further. Before Destruction opens proceedings with a transfixing air of foreboding before Is Love Forever? and The Mystery Zone kick in the door with the hooks that the band has made its name on. Who Makes Your Money and first single Written In Reverse will be familiar to Spoon fans who witnessed the band playing prototypical live versions at select dates in 2008, as will Got Nuffin, the title track of the EP released by the band earlier this year.

Since the band's 1994 inception in Austin TX, Spoon has amassed one of the most loyal and steadily growing followings in indie rock, with classic albums like Telephono (1996), A Series of Sneaks (1998) Girls Can Tell (2001), Kill The Moonlight (2002) and Gimme Fiction (2005) each doubling their predecessors' sales.

1. Before Destruction2. Is Love Forever?3. The Mystery Zone4. Who Makes Your Money5. Written In Reverse6. I Saw The Light7. Trouble Comes Running8. Goodnight Laura9. Out Go The Lights10. Got Nuffin11. Nobody Gets Me But You

Dark Side Of The Spoon

Dark Side Of The Spoon is the seventh studio album by Industrial Metal band Ministry, released in 1999. The song Bad Blood was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 2000.

There are two theories behind the title (which occurs in the lyrics of the opening track), the first being a simple play on words, referencing Pink Floyd's record The Dark Side Of The Moon. The second is a reference to the blackened or dark side of a spoon when heated to dissolve heroin, as the band suffered from addiction to said substance at the time.

The album's cover, which features a naked fat woman sitting in front of a black board with I will be god written numerous times gained controversy and was banned from Kmart. The woman and the words on the blackboard were later airbrushed out.

A Spoonful Of Time

The first ever covers album from Prog Rock legends, Nektar, finds the band joined by an incredible gathering of musical heroes from a wide variety of genres!

A psychedelic head trip through classic rock radio with artful twists on The Doors' "Riders On The Storm," Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here," Rush's "Sprit Of Radio," Roxy Music's "Out Of The Blue" and more!

Features performances by members of Yes, King Crimson, Symphony X, Opeth, Marillion, Asia, The Moody Blues, Dream Theater, Tangerine Dream, and more!

LP11. Sirius 2. Spirit Of The Radio 3. Fly Like An Eagle 4. Wish You Were Here 5. For The Love Of Money 6. Can't Find My Way Home 7. 2000 Light Years From Home

LP21. Riders On The Storm 2. Blinded By The Light 3. Out Of The Blue 4. Old Man 5. Dream Weaver 6. I'm Not In Love 7. Africa

A Thing Called Divine Fits

Divine Fits, the band comprised of Spoon's Britt Daniel, Wolf Parade's Dan Boeckner and the New Bomb Turks' Sam Brown, has confirmed that its debut album, A Thing Called Divine Fits, will be released via Merge Records.

A Thing Called Divine Fits was recorded from March-May of 2012 in a backyard studio in Los Angeles, CA. The band co-produced the album with Nick Launay and it clocks in at about 42-and-a-half minutes long. Roughly half the tracks are lead-sung by Dan and half by Britt while Alex Fischel plays keyboards like a madman throughout.

Over the course of A Thing Called Divine Fits' 11 songs it covers such topics as the death of true love, hitchhiking, cocoa butter, emotional distance, what happens when the curtain drops, and Minneapolis, MN.

1. My Love Is Real2. Flaggin a Ride3. What Gets You Alone4. Would That Not Be Nice5. The Salton Sea6. Baby Get Worse7. Civilian Stripes8. For Your Heart9. Shivers10. Like Ice Cream11. Neopolitans

Spoon's Life (Pure Pleasure)

A beautifully recorded session of top quality blues performed by masters of their art. On paper it may look like a slightly odd coupling of KC shouter with a Chicago blues band. The results confirm that Jimmy Witherspoon is a blues singer full of passion and throughout this session all the musicians compliment each other admirably. A beautiful slab of music.

Musicians:

Jimmy Witherspoon (vocal)

George Smith (harmonica)

Johnny Dollar, Sammy Lawhorn (guitar)

Nick Charles (bass)

Roosevelt "Snake" Shaw (drums)

About Pure Pleasure

At the beginning of the 90s, in the early days of audiophile vinyl re-releases, the situation was fairly straightforward. Companies such as DCC, Mobile Fidelity, Classic Records and, of course, Pure Pleasure all maintained a mutual, unwritten ethical code: we would only use analogue tapes to manufacture records.

During the course of the present vinyl hype, many others have jumped on the bandwagon in the hope of securing a corner of the market. Very often they are not so ethical and use every imaginable source to master from: CDs, LPs, digital files, MP3s - or employed existent tools from the 80s and 90s for manufacturing.

A digital delay is gladly used when cutting a lacquer disc because tape machines with an analogue delay have become quite rare and are therefore expensive. When cutting the lacquer, the audio signal is delayed by one LP revolution against the signal, which controls the cutter head, and for this a digital delay is very often employed. Of course, the resultant sound signal is completely digital and thus only as good as this delay.

We should like to emphasize that Pure Pleasure Records on principle only uses the original master tape as the basis for the entirely analogue cutting of lacquer discs. In addition, the pressing tool is newly manufactured as a matter of principle.

We only employ existing tools for manufacturing if an improved result is not forthcoming, e.g. the title Elvis Is Back, which was mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray, or several titles from our Philips Classics series, which in any case Willem Makkee cut from the original masters at the Emil Berliner Studios in the 90s. It goes without saying that we only used the mother and that new tools were made for our production.

To put it in a nutshell: we can ensure you that our releases are free from any kind of digital effects and that the lacquer discs are newly cut.

Hums Of The Lovin' Spoonful

180 Gram R.T.I. Vinyl Pressing

From the Original Kama Sutra Mono Masters

Greenwich Village, 1964: While the folk boom is still in progress, other musics began seeping into the corners and clubs of lower Manhattan. Rock, once down for the count, came back with a vengeance, largely thanks to a klatch of young British bands. Roots music, especially blues, grew rapidly in popularity as folk enthusiasts expanded their horizons. In this intoxicating milieu, John Sebastian, Zal Yanovsky, Joe Butler and Steve Boone united to form the Lovin' Spoonful. Originally a jug band with folk roots, they readily incorporated the sounds they heard all around them. Combining British Invasion jangle with the blues' growl and folk's attention to lyrical detail, they forged a sound completely their own. Accomplished musicians all, they had two secret weapons: the guitar virtuosity of Zal Yanovsky and the rising songwriting talent of John Sebastian.

The first Spoonful single, "Do You Believe in Magic," took AM radio by storm in June of that year, reaching #9 on the Billboard Hot 100. Featuring an irrepressible melody, a chiming autoharp and Yanovsky's tasteful fills, it was an audacious debut. Their inaugural Kama Sutra LP, also titled Do You Believe in Magic, followed in November 1965. Containing three other Sebastian originals and one song credited to the band, the balance of the LP contained traditional blues covers and songs by contemporary writers. Reaching #32 on the Billboard Top 200, it established the band as one of country's brightest new talents.

By the release of their second album, Daydream, in March 1966, the band's songwriting chops had fully blossomed, particularly Sebastian's, who wrote or co-wrote all but one of the songs. The album's first single, "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice" reached #10 on the Hot 100 and married a signature Yanovsky riff with a galloping piano part to form an indelible hook. The title track, a mid-tempo reverie with an ace whistling solo, did even better, soaring to #2. Skipping ahead a few decades, the album cut "Butchie's Tune" was used to great effect in season five of Mad Men.

The band soon returned with Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful. Consciously working in different styles, the band essayed country ("Nashville Cats"), folk balladry ("Rain on the Roof") and psych- tinged rock ("Summer in the City"), among other sounds. This time, all the songs were originals and it was the last full album recorded by the original quartet. It stands as a triumphant ending to one of the most exciting chapters in the American rock story of the 1960s, a perfect encapsulation of a time when it seemed anything was possible in music. Sourced from the original Kama Sutra mono masters, these masterpieces are pressed at RTI on 180gm vinyl.

The Best Of The Lovin' Spoonful

Mastered by Joe Reagoso with Kevin Gray from the Original Kama Sutra Stereo Tapes & Manufactured at R.T.I!

The legendary pop/rock superstars The Lovin' Spoonful (John B. Sebastian, Zal Yanovsky, Steve Boone and Joe Butler) set the music world on fire back in the '60s. With a ton of television appearances, massive concert tours and of course an amazing string of hit singles and albums, The Lovin' Spoonful to this day are still revered and loved by their continual growing legion of fans worldwide.

In 1967, Kama Sutra Records honored these hugely popular rockers with their first hits album simply titled The Best Of the Lovin' Spoonful. Filled with a treasure trove of number one and top charting singles and hit album tracks from their first three smash albums, this incredible LP also hit the upper rungs of the album charts the Summer of Love 1967.

No stone is left unturned, as this 12-track masterpiece is loaded with hit singles like Do You Believe In Magic?, You Didn't Have To Be So Nice, Daydream, Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind?, Younger Girl, plus their number one smash from 1966 Summer In The City. As one of the more collectible albums in their Kama Sutra Records catalog, The Best Of The Lovin' Spoonful has been out of print for many years, making it an instant collector's item, which hasn't seen the light of day for over four decades, that is until now!

Friday Music is pleased to announce for the very first time on audiophile vinyl The Best Of The Lovin' Spoonful. Mastered impeccably from the original Kama Sutra Records tapes by Joe Reagoso (The Monkees/The Byrds/Paul Revere & The Raiders) at Friday Music Studios with Kevin Gray, this amazing pop classic truly shines in the audiophile vinyl domain. Long time unearthed vinyl mixes of their classic hit singles and solid album tracks like Didn't Want To Have To Do It, Night Owl Blues and Jug Band Music truly resonate as you remember them from years ago. To enhance your limited edition album, Friday has also included the original gatefold cover artwork as well as a limited edition photo insert featuring four photographs of the individual band members.

1. Do You Believe In Magic2. Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind3. Butchie's Tune4. Jug Band Music5. Night Owl Blues6. You Didn't Have To Be So Nice7. Daydream8. Blues In The Bottle9. Didn't Want To Have To Do It10. Wild About My Lovin'11. Younger Girl12. Summer In The City

The Hill

On the 100th anniversary of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology,Merge is reissuing the epic it inspired: Richard Buckner's The Hill.

The Hill started in 1996 in The Ranch Olancha Motel, a dusty place near themouth of Death Valley, California. Buckner, who was en route to Tucson,Arizona, to record what would become Devotion & Doubt, stayed a week in aroom with no phone, no television, carrying his guitar, a four-track recorder,and a copy of Masters' Spoon River Anthology. He tinkered with a few of thebook's poems, put them on a cassette, and forgot about it until an acquaintancediscovered it in his truck four years later. Beset with writer's block and lookingfor a distraction, Buckner would find in the tape the spur he needed.

Recorded in Edmonton, Alberta, and Tucson, The Hill converts Spoon Riverpoems to music. Each page of Spoon River Anthology reads as a final, postmortemdictum of a different deceased resident-more than 250 of themnow passed-in the fictional Midwestern town of Spoon River. The epitaphsare important for Buckner because, in death, these people strip the breathingcity of its dishonesty. Each one, from Reuben Pantier to Elizabeth Childers toOscar Hummel, is no longer concerned with whispers and pointed fingers thatare often the consequence of a life laid bare for all to see. They're unleashingthemselves, without fallacy or attachment.

Buckner chooses 18 of these confessions, each given a unique rendering.Backed by Calexico's Joey Burns and John Convertino and surveyed withBuckner's unflagging vocal desperation, Spoon River's residents come back tolife. Like so much of his career, Buckner disappeared into Spoon River andreturns to us with its story

Daydream

180 Gram R.T.I. Vinyl Pressing

From the Original Kama Sutra Mono Masters

Greenwich Village, 1964: While the folk boom is still in progress, other musics began seeping into the corners and clubs of lower Manhattan. Rock, once down for the count, came back with a vengeance, largely thanks to a klatch of young British bands. Roots music, especially blues, grew rapidly in popularity as folk enthusiasts expanded their horizons. In this intoxicating milieu, John Sebastian, Zal Yanovsky, Joe Butler and Steve Boone united to form the Lovin' Spoonful. Originally a jug band with folk roots, they readily incorporated the sounds they heard all around them. Combining British Invasion jangle with the blues' growl and folk's attention to lyrical detail, they forged a sound completely their own. Accomplished musicians all, they had two secret weapons: the guitar virtuosity of Zal Yanovsky and the rising songwriting talent of John Sebastian. The first Spoonful single, "Do You Believe in Magic," took AM radio by storm in June of that year, reaching #9 on the Billboard Hot 100. Featuring an irrepressible melody, a chiming autoharp and Yanovsky's tasteful fills, it was an audacious debut. Their inaugural Kama Sutra LP, also titled Do You Believe in Magic, followed in November 1965. Containing three other Sebastian originals and one song credited to the band, the balance of the LP contained traditional blues covers and songs by contemporary writers. Reaching #32 on the Billboard Top 200, it established the band as one of country's brightest new talents. By the release of their second album, Daydream, in March 1966, the band's songwriting chops had fully blossomed, particularly Sebastian's, who wrote or co-wrote all but one of the songs. The album's first single, "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice" reached #10 on the Hot 100 and married a signature Yanovsky riff with a galloping piano part to form an indelible hook. The title track, a mid-tempo reverie with an ace whistling solo, did even better, soaring to #2. Skipping ahead a few decades, the album cut "Butchie's Tune" was used to great effect in season five of Mad Men. The band soon returned with Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful. Consciously working in different styles, the band essayed country ("Nashville Cats"), folk balladry ("Rain on the Roof") and psych- tinged rock ("Summer in the City"), among other sounds. This time, all the songs were originals and it was the last full album recorded by the original quartet. It stands as a triumphant ending to one of the most exciting chapters in the American rock story of the 1960s, a perfect encapsulation of a time when it seemed anything was possible in music. Sourced from the original Kama Sutra mono masters, these masterpieces are pressed at RTI on 180gm vinyl.

1. Daydream2. There She Is3. It's Not Time Now4. Warm Baby5. Day Blues6. Let The Boy Rock N Roll7. Jug Band Music8. Didn't Want To Have To Do It9. You Didn't Have To Be So Nice10. Bald Headed Lena11. Butchie's Tune12. Big Noise From Speonk

Do You Believe In Magic

180 Gram R.T.I. Vinyl Pressing

From the Original Kama Sutra Mono Masters

Greenwich Village, 1964: While the folk boom is still in progress, other musics began seeping into the corners and clubs of lower Manhattan. Rock, once down for the count, came back with a vengeance, largely thanks to a klatch of young British bands. Roots music, especially blues, grew rapidly in popularity as folk enthusiasts expanded their horizons. In this intoxicating milieu, John Sebastian, Zal Yanovsky, Joe Butler and Steve Boone united to form the Lovin' Spoonful. Originally a jug band with folk roots, they readily incorporated the sounds they heard all around them. Combining British Invasion jangle with the blues' growl and folk's attention to lyrical detail, they forged a sound completely their own. Accomplished musicians all, they had two secret weapons: the guitar virtuosity of Zal Yanovsky and the rising songwriting talent of John Sebastian.

The first Spoonful single, "Do You Believe in Magic," took AM radio by storm in June of that year, reaching #9 on the Billboard Hot 100. Featuring an irrepressible melody, a chiming autoharp and Yanovsky's tasteful fills, it was an audacious debut. Their inaugural Kama Sutra LP, also titled Do You Believe in Magic, followed in November 1965. Containing three other Sebastian originals and one song credited to the band, the balance of the LP contained traditional blues covers and songs by contemporary writers. Reaching #32 on the Billboard Top 200, it established the band as one of country's brightest new talents.

By the release of their second album, Daydream, in March 1966, the band's songwriting chops had fully blossomed, particularly Sebastian's, who wrote or co-wrote all but one of the songs. The album's first single, "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice" reached #10 on the Hot 100 and married a signature Yanovsky riff with a galloping piano part to form an indelible hook. The title track, a mid-tempo reverie with an ace whistling solo, did even better, soaring to #2. Skipping ahead a few decades, the album cut "Butchie's Tune" was used to great effect in season five of Mad Men.

The band soon returned with Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful. Consciously working in different styles, the band essayed country ("Nashville Cats"), folk balladry ("Rain on the Roof") and psych- tinged rock ("Summer in the City"), among other sounds. This time, all the songs were originals and it was the last full album recorded by the original quartet. It stands as a triumphant ending to one of the most exciting chapters in the American rock story of the 1960s, a perfect encapsulation of a time when it seemed anything was possible in music. Sourced from the original Kama Sutra mono masters, these masterpieces are pressed at RTI on 180gm vinyl.

1. Do You Believe In Magic2. Blues In The Bottle3. Sportin Life4. My Gal5. You Baby6. Fishin Blues7. Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind8. Wild About My Lovin9. Other Side Of This Life 10. Younger Girl11. On The Road Again12. Night Owl Blues

Dormarion

Telekinesis is both a band and a person. Now a grizzled and wizened 26 year old, Michael Benjamin Lerner has recorded his third album, Dormarion. The record is, in ways both practical and profound, the sound of a man figuring out exactly who he is. Also, it's a total fucking hoot. Lerner originally intended to record the album completely on his own. Instead, he made the record in two weeks with Spoon drummer Jim Eno in his Austin, TX studio, Public Hi-Fi. On Dormarion Lane, to be specific. "It's a beautiful-sounding word, and if you Google it, nothing but this one tiny street comes up," says Lerner. "No origin, no description. I can't tell you what the word means. It's like something from Lost."

Johnny 99 / Bad As Me

The pleasure is all ours in announcing a new Blue Series single from Charleston, SC's own Shovels & Rope. Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent are definitely our favorite inter-gender rock n roll two piece since... well, you know (somewhere Alison Mosshart yells ''WTF?!'')... and we're certainly excited to present this Blue Series single featuring two covers of real life titans of the biz. Side A gives us Shovels & Rope's piano heavy take on Bruce Springsteen's ''Johnny 99'' while the flip is a slinky hip shaking version of Tom Waits' ''Bad As Me''. This is the perfect soundtrack for two doomed souls dancing in the glow of a jukebox in a greasy spoon diner... We reckon Messrs Springsteen and Waits should be mighty proud.

Second Helping (45 RPM)

200-Gram 45 RPM Vinyl Pressing By Quality Record Pressings!

Mastered By Kevin Gray At Cohearent Audio

Sleeved In A Tip-On Jacket

MoFi may have the rest of their catalogue, but Chad Kassem's coup is grabbing this album, the band's second, from 1974. Why? Because it kicks off with their anthem, the inimitable, riff-driven, majestic 'Sweet Home Alabama' - one of the greatest air-guitar/road trip songs ever. By this time, the band was a mite slicker but just as unapologetically Confederate-with-a-capital 'C' as on their debut. The opener does overshadow the rest, but the album serves up what the LP title promises in 'The Needle And The Spoon,' which sounds like 'Sweet Home Alabama II.' Musically, this nestles alongside Little Feat and The Allman Brothers Band - deservedly high praise. - Ken Kessler, Hi-Fi News, April 2014

Get ready for some Southern hospitality, courtesy of Analogue Productions, Quality Record Pressings and one of the hardest-rocking bands to ever grace a stage! With a catalog of over 60 albums and sales beyond 30 million, Lynyrd Skynyrd remains a cultural icon that appeals to all generations.

This Lynyrd Skynyrd 1974 album follows the success of Free Bird and Gimme Three Steps from their 1973 debut and features their biggest hit single, Sweet Home Alabama, an answer to Neil Young's Southern Man and Alabama. The song reached No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1974. Second Helping also featured Don't Ask Me No Questions, Workin' for MCA and Call Me The Breeze, the latter of which includes an acclaimed piano solo. Backed by a tight rhythm section and the mighty three-guitar attack of Allen Collins, Ed King and Gary Rossington, singer Ronnie Van Zant turns in a legendary performance on the urgent blues ballad I Need You, the cautionary The Needle And The Spoon and The Ballad Of Curtis Loew. 200-gram vinyl, mastering by Kevin Gray, lacquer plating by QRP's Gary Salstrom, heavy, tip-on gatefold jacket. None better.

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